Don't let a Crash, Wreck your Locksmithing Business! | #Lockboss Show & Giveaway

Don't let a Crash, Wreck your Locksmithing Business! | #Lockboss Show & Giveaway

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hey everybody how is it going welcome  back to another hashtag lockboss show and   giveaway we have a good storyline  um in a good storyline for you today   as well as of course we're going to be  announcing this week's five lock boss winners so   this gentleman sitting to my right is chris  chris how are you doing i'm doing great man   it's always a pleasure i'm just happy to be here  yeah absolutely right so um for those of you who   do not know um if you're new this is chris he is  the owner uh well just go and tell him the couple   businesses so i have a uh local locksmith  business uh river city locksmith located   up here in pacific northwest and i also have a uh  fundamentally locksmith derived apparel um novelty   everything about locksmithing that's  called lockjaw lockjaw manufacturing and uh   you know both of them keep me very busy so you  know these bags did not develop overnight it   took a while to get there underneath the eyes and  i'm very happy to do it very good good stuff so   now someone didn't want to check out though your  lock jaw stuff um where would they go so uh you   can find us on instagram uh obviously if the name  is gonna be lockjaw mfg or you can visit online at   www.thelockjawmfg.com there we go here we have  to get a little lockjaw shelling in all right   yeah i mean i don't do it for everybody  but i'll do it for you all right   but um yeah so everybody of course  no we're drinking tapo chico cheers and um i'll tell you what we have uh  quite the story for you tonight so   without further ado let's go and get going all right so let's go to the post of  the week here all right this one is sent   in from upgrade guy locks looks like he uh sent  um this is uh his order he actually got and   he says he we blew um him away with our speed  well hey we definitely try to get every order   out that um gets uh placed before 3 p.m but it  looks like probably fedex um did their magic on   that but thank you for sending it in really do  appreciate that let's see what we got next here   all right next we got from edward m so looks  like edward m um signed up and became a   mx 13 dealer and looks like that's one of  his orders there you can see the lock boss   hat in the background we got a couple boxes  of keys and a bunch of cylinders and uh   a big bro the mat underneath there that's good  stuff that's good stuff well mx is good stuff   man that stuff's really nice it is it's a great  alternative to having like a medical system you   can use your schlage pins yeah you know it's super  easy to work with it is you know something i need   to check we finally got uh schleg blue punches  back in stock and i've been meaning to uh it's   been hard to uh for me to check and see if you  can actually punch our mx13 with that blue punch   i've heard people say yes and some people say  no they've also had similar issues like with   certain promises and everest keys uh some people  have originated on the on the sc punch and then   they'll transfer to a cutting machine and put it  on there for mx so i guess so it depends how you   know how hard you want to try yeah well i think  you know each since each mx keyway is different   like my theory is that when we put one in some are  either going to sit right right and some aren't   that's true and so i'm gonna i need to find out  i'm going to find out and it looks like we got who   is that uh lock mechanic says mx13 sounds like  a cartel kind of is i mean you're in for life   right yeah pretty much yeah you use money in there  and you're stuck with it yep exactly but edward   hey thanks for sending that picture and that's  very cool definitely welcome and here coming up   soon we're gonna have something special for all  of our mx13 dealers so um stay tuned for that all right comment of the week let's  see what we're cooking with here   all right excuse me for leaning in  here so i can read it but it says uh   uh pouncerman said great vids as always i have  a question maybe you can make a video on it   when you program in a key to a car does it  get locked meaning you can't reprogram the key   can you reprogram it to the same car some  transponders get locked or unlocked and i'm   not too clear what that means per se you know  that is an absolutely great question and um   kind of like when i would ask one of my  ex-girlfriends in high school like if we   were going to stay together and yeah she pretty  much said it's complicated not well right but uh   you know um it's complicated and what i mean by  that is um you know i talk a lot about and chris   feel free to chime in here you know i talk a lot  about how stuff can be like more true than untrue   and this is one of those cases where some  depending on the vehicle some can be redone   to a completely different vehicle they can they're  reusable some manufacturers are reliably going to   allow for that like if you take your uh your h92s  i can take it from a 2005 to a 2015. no problem   yeah then there's some manufacturers that will not  allow that if it's a prox if it's a push start so   who made it you got your super chips there's a  million ways it can go so yes the answer i guess   is maybe you know maybe you know and that might  be kind of a fun video to kind of like i've done   all the different you know transponder videos  but it might be fun just to like that's a lot of   research to get all those and piece of information  down yeah it might turn into a pdf yeah you know   because some of them it's like well yes if if you  bought it from this manufactured oem will yes and   aftermarket won't which aftermarket won't do this  is that this kind of board yeah i mean yeah i mean   now that you're yeah i mean it's one of those it's  like a rabbit hole where it's like okay how can we   take enough information out to be accurate but yet  also realizing that you have to leave some parts   out which is why a lot of times in the videos  when i do a transponder key i don't mention   it okay yeah that's that's probably better than  sorry and the reason i don't is because it depends   and so yeah it's never like a car has  ever had a problem programming a key it   so there's some cars that you know are going to be  no problem you get some cars like i did a 99 uh f   was a mustang or a 99 ranger one of those very few  older fords actually required it there's always a   problem with those older vehicles and not to say  the keys may not work with another version of it   it just it goes back and forth there's just really  no solid answer there really is yes and depending   on your technical um expertise and equipment you  can unlock them yes you can there are chips that   can't or there are is it cloneable if it's  clonable yes you can move to different keys   yes right there's a thousand ways to do it  there is right and so um yeah so i hope that   kind of helps i know it's probably not the answer  you're looking for but that's kind of the reason   why like my ex-girlfriends used to say it's  complicated yeah right the only difference is you   still have a chance to do it i did it right now  i'm just playing it obviously haven't gone over   it's okay yeah it's okay you know many years ago  but you know it's my wife's wacky she's like what   are you talking about man right but that's what  makes it fun that's not linked to mine i'm kind   of regretting that now so yeah all right so um  all right so chris it's time to kind of get into   a fun story here for a few minutes so every time  yeah yeah so now did you like the title i came up   i did i did i liked it i saw that on instagram  see i was like that's spot on yeah it took me a   while to come up with something fun you know but  um the title was if you get into a crash don't let   it wreck your business obviously as a dad and you  as a dad we can thoroughly enjoy puns that's just   it's inherited a certain point it is it really  is so you got into a accident and do you want to   tell the story first or do you want to show the  pictures first i was going to show the pictures   first because pictures are worth a thousand words  they are okay so let me get this pulled up here   and i'm going to go through and we'll show you  the pictures and then you'll hear the story   so chris this is the vehicle that's the  vehicle that hit me there's a 2014 chevy   sonic and if you're familiar with a chevy sonic  it's about 99 plastic so don't think that this uh   vehicle received a lot of damage it just  pretty much crumpled like it was supposed to   and no one was hurt except for me probably time  will tell that's what chiropractors before but   at the same time um yeah that was the driver's  vehicle they ran a red light they were probably   on their cell phone who am i to decide um and  yeah i feel bad because that is obviously what   they have to you know try and get home with now  yeah as uh locked mechanic says just just put   some dirt on and it'll buff out oh yeah easy  right you know when you sent me these pictures   i mean i was like this one like you sent  them to me like immediately this one came   to my eyes this is a very uh deceiving  picture it really is and the next one   and like sincerely i was like i kind of stopped  and i was like okay chris is sending these to me   or something he must be okay you know what i mean  like right because when you look at that picture   it's like oh my gosh something bad happened yeah  well someone did just not for me yes um so is   the other person okay yeah the other person was  fine air bags went off obviously you know they   got out everything everyone it was a pretty  slow area i think 30 35 is what they're doing   but everyone everyone lived okay cool that's good  next up the white gorilla there this is so you   would think that that's a horrible piece of damage  and it there's a lot more to the surface but   luckily i caught them out of the corner of my eye  as i was going through my intersection on my green   light and they were kind of blowing through the  red light i caught them on the corner of my eye   and i hit the gas because if i didn't that would  have been the side right there by the driver's   door so they essentially turned my rear axle into  a giant spring and it just kind of spun me through   the intersection like a pinball so i was able to  drive home albeit not at the same speed i would   normally liked um but i did limp at home and that  kind of goes to tell you the difference between   a full service you know e250 versus a plastic  hatchback car um one of them is going to walk away   and obviously it wasn't them so here let me  toggle between these here for a second because   when you see this okay yeah you're not expecting  to see that my insurance adjuster did not believe   me when i called them i said look here's i call  the next morning here's the situation here's the   pictures um and they said okay but what part of  the car got hit i was like this is the part that   got hit they said no no we need to see the  part they got struck by the like this is it   this is what happened so it was a little bit  unbelievable but there's there's definitely   some some transition with the rear axle and  i need to break lines and there's definitely   stuff needs to be done that's not on the surface  there you're not going to see yeah i mean i kind   of view this picture as like you know someone like  they'll get like um they'll get into an accident   though like that steering will hit them and they  look fine from the outside like maybe a little   but they have internal bleeding going on  right and that kind of seems like that's   what's happening to your van here kind of  right did i send you the inside pictures yes   i got this coming so i saw let's just toggle one  more time okay because it's so unbelievable night   and day there's the vehicle that hit him the the  person driving is okay that's what it that's the   damage it left that's crazy i love that that's why  the vanilla gorilla it is it just took that hit   and it just kept moving yeah that is unbelievable  i mean from this picture it looks like a tank yeah   that's what it felt like i mean it's a tank  so let's look at the inside now here we go all right look at these two pictures here so as  you can see you got shaked yeah and it tossed   the interior of my band like a salad to it luckily  you know all my equipment was there to absorb the   the impact so that's good yes so that it  definitely took me about two days to kind   of get everything cleaned up took a million  pictures for insurance i had some equipment   they got you see my lovely schleich punch right  there on the ground right there on its side i know   it's so sad looking isn't it and it still works  though because hey it's a solid piece as in a bet   i was like man that thing i mean like i mean  you could use that as like uh the base of a   jack to jack your truck up and it'd still work  you know maybe a good video that would actually but yeah that uh wow   it probably hurts a few locksmiths out there  to see this video you know these pictures all right we're back there we go um yeah that see  that stuff i mean everything's got time turned   over i lost a few bends up on the top over there  yeah and if you've ever been in a vehicle full of   small metal keyblanks gets hit they were all over  the floor i was finding boxes overturned a 250 kw   one pack on the ground just dumped upside down um  i'm still trying to figure out there's any major   damage to anything but um i think i will recover  as far as the equipment applies yeah okay so   someone asked uh where'd i see that oh b strickler  says um did the pinning kit explode everywhere no   the pinning kit did not because i was smart and i  actually bolted it down to a tool chest which is   bolted down to the cabinets which is bolted down  to the frame so the pinning kit received no damage   at all and you had it latched i'm guessing  oh yeah yeah it takes you one time to make   that mistake you never do it again that is the  truth isn't it yes that is the truth man that um   wow yeah it was a little hectic the next day i  was very adamant about you know taking inventory   seeing what was broken my oh actually the one  thing i think the only actual uh major equipment   that is going to probably take a while to get  back is i have a kronos epg electric pick gun   it comes from germany and so you can't just get  it overnighted so that's the one thing to stop   working so that's really i think the main thing  that is gonna probably need to be replaced okay   okay so let's um you know that's crazy chris first  of all thanks for coming on and talking about this   and sharing those pictures because this video if  you have any sort of mobile business right which   essentially every locksmithing business whether  you're a drywall or a painter like a christian   plumber whatever yeah this really brings  us to a really um sobering point here okay   and that is when this happens you at least  temporarily don't have a lock fan yeah if you   are a if you're a strictly mobile person like  i am you can't just say hey come to the shop   that's just not gonna happen because there's no  shop but it's important to know a couple terms if   this has all been very eye-opening for me because  i'm i'm unfortunately a good driver i don't have   any speeding tickets in like 20 years nothing  have nothing on my record so when i'm going   through the process doing insurance and obviously  it was you know i wasn't at fault for anything   it's there's a lot of doors opened up for  you including the most important one which   is loss of use so if you get into an accident  and you are hey my toyota cola i can't use it   because it's going to be in the shop right now  they'll always give you another toyota corolla   you cannot rent a fully stocked and serviceable  lots of van because insurance company or a rental   company is not going to say yeah go and take our  you know 2022 van and gut it run the wiring put   cabinets put benches and stuff they don't want  that so loss of use is a term of finding out that   insurance will pretty much have to take care  of my business until i'm back on the road   which is good and bad because i got stuff i  can take care of your home but the same time   you don't want to tell your important clients  hey sorry i can't help you because partron back   order body shop's on you know a delay right now so  you're looking at about two to three months which   sucks but at the same time it's beginning of  summer so take some vacations i don't take it easy   yeah okay so can i can we unpack this a little bit  absolutely okay so you with through your insurance   now of course this is not financial advice okay so  go ahead and contact your uh existing or different   insurance agent whatever that might  be so on your policy you had this so   the opposite person's policy will have to cover  everything because it's their fault right yes so   one of the things you can request is a loss of use  meaning that they'll take your taxes from the last   several years divided by 365 and that's what they  pay you every single day until your business is   back up so is what i'm hearing is that because  you had this piece of insurance in place um   no did you intentionally sign up for this or  did you just kind of hit the jackpot when you   got your insurance it so if you have a  business vehicle set up because you have   commercial vehicles and you have a commercial  policy so a commercial vehicle is going to   be gvrw over what sixteen thousand pounds or  something like that so that's gonna be like your   freightliners your big rigs um and then  you have a commercial vehicle you can take   a toilet matrix hatchback and make it a commercial  vehicle if it's being used in a commercial setting   so if you have a vehicle that's in a commercial  setting it has commercial um indemnities that   come with that and one of those is being able to  say hey this vehicle is a money producing vehicle   i'm not using it to go to my office and come back  every day so now it qualifies the loss of use   falls under a commercial it's like if someone  would blow up your building for your business   that's essentially what happened yes and so um  i think the biggest point i'm hearing is hey for   all of you out there who are using a vehicle  for doing your work your locksmithing work   i know it's cheaper to get insurance as just  a person because commercial insurance is more   however this is a great example of why you  haven't yes if you would have done that   it would be a lot different it would have probably  still worked out but it would have been a lot more   hoops to jump through would have to prove it's  a business vehicle and if you've ever dealt with   insurance companies they are very quick to take  your payment but at the same time you wait in   two weeks for a call back on you know when is this  gonna happen who's this gonna be doing with this   yeah who's the person i have to call to deal with  this yeah so it's really important for all you   out there make sure you have this coverage and  make sure that if you're using your vehicle for   commercial work that you're getting it insured  as a commercial vehicle yes i think that's   a big nugget takeaway here that is a huge that's  the whole reason i'm here today to tell everyone   out there get commercial insurance for vehicle  or review your policy with whoever you have for   insurance and have a backup plan if you have a  secondary vehicle great you can do that if you   do not have those qualifying factors for  insurance ask why not because if you are a   mobile only locksmith and you have have a  situation like this you want to know that   you're going to be taken care of so if you  don't mind just okay so i really appreciate   you talking about that i want to kind of dive  into this a little more if you don't mind so   you know we didn't prep these questions so  if i say something you don't want to answer   um i'll just give them a walk out yep yeah yep or  dump your top paco on me and whatever you know so   right now while your van is getting fixed like  how long are you out of a van so right now they're   estimating they'll start the work about mid-june  and they take about four weeks for the repairs   and that's not including what they find on the  mechanical side of it that's just the body work   so when they get up underneath it they say  oh you know what that differential is blue   the the pumpkin on the on the back of your  axle is blown up uh you need to have a new uh   new rear axle you know the other alignments so  i'm expecting about six weeks once in the shop   um but in the meantime i did start out once upon  a time in a truck that's you know that was ten   years ago almost so now i'm back in my truck the  same truck uh my dodge dakota just kind of taking   care of my main accounts and some people might say  well you should just take the time off and relax   you have a counselor depending on you property  management companies um you know banks   all these other facilities it's easy to go  re-key and work on locks when you already   know what the keys are gonna be if you're  switching from a wr5 that did from wr5   it's easy enough to do yeah it's the the  random stuff that cold call customers that say   i need 10 locks re-key none of the keys match that  could be anything i could be going making trips   back and forth and you can only fit so much in the  back seat of a truck right now so right now it's   very much just prioritizing my important accounts  and the cold call stuff just kind of waiting on   the sides right now so the cool part is is that  of course you know you spent all of this time   energy effort you have a reputation in your  community right and you of course want to   keep all of that right that the best you can well  imagine if someone asked you say hey uh hey pg i   need uh i need 150 se1s oh you know what i'm not  shipping right now call me in six months from now   they're not going to wait six months they need  to take care of a lot sooner than that very true   so they're going to prime up going somewhere  else for that yeah that's why it's important   to make sure i take care of those important  accounts that you know i've had working   relationships with for years yeah they know  me i know them i'm there once or twice a week   it's still important and they and one of the  things i did is when this all happened i got a   hold of all these different um you know accounts  that i have and say hey here's a situation if you   have anything that's going to be exceeding basics  i need some advanced notice that way i can make   sure i have the right products and materials for  this so there's no surprises the less surprises   the easier it is for me to handle it right now  yeah you know that's good so in the meantime   you're also getting paid by the insurance company  so you went from a situ like tell me if i'm wrong   here okay but you went from a situation that  could be really bad correct okay and really   by all accounts it could be a death blow to your  business yeah absolutely to no fault of your own   right right to no fault of your own you didn't  do anything wrong yet you could be in a situation   where all of your hard work is in jeopardy over  the course of 90 days you could lose it all if   you didn't set up correctly correct right  but instead of that you figured out a way   to keep your customer base happy you can keep  serving them is it a little less convenient for   you absolutely oh yeah you spend so much time  in a van that's almost like your second home   you have everything you like the way it's set up  you have your equipment except the way it is your   key machines everything and then you go from that  to i have about a 90 reduction available services   that changes things it does and so but instead  you're doing all right oh yeah you know probably   there's a probably of a uh part of you that's like  you know it's kind of nice it's kind of like being   paid to go on vacation when you didn't want to  go but still having to work a little bit at the   same time it's really weird there's some silver  linings because like i said someone's coming   up the kids are going to school the weather is  nice it's nice time to spend more time with them   um i mentioned a couple months ago as we do in  my sighting and i want one of the projects i'm   working on so now i have an opportunity to work  on some smaller stuff at home get caught up i   got an old truck i'm restoring so it's there's  more stuff to do than i thought i was gonna need   to do but at the same time i'm kind of being  pushed into like take some offer work you know   deal also i'm not sure what's even happened  with um i got i got bulging discs from it now   and there's just things like time will tell how  it's all going to play out but for now i just got   just kind of keeping mellow just don't worry too  crazy yep it's holding my main accounts that's   great everyone's happy so far so that's great well  chris thank you for coming on and talking about it   oh yeah i think this could be so beneficial  especially for um anybody who's watching or   listening to this um at some point that is not  that does not have that correct insurance we   can always talk about is how you kind of keys i  do this but the business aspects of it but these   are also very important things because when your  business gets pretty much knocked out of the water   and you have no control over how it happened  when it happened when it's going to be corrected   you have to make sure you have all your all your  uh all your cards are on in the right places yeah   because you have to have a contingency plan for  this kind of stuff absolutely well it's great you   did um and i'm glad you're doing good and you're  okay you know i'm in good spirits i'm you know   i've been working a lot less obviously which is  good for the stress values so that's good too   you know yeah especially you know when you're  you know the type of operation you have i mean   you have to grind it out right you have to go  through at least seasons of grinding it out so   this might actually be an opportunity for you  to um like reset a little bit a little bit like   i get more time to work on lockjaw and i guess  more chances to you know market with that and   work on new designs and so it's really cool that  i'm not i'm not stopping my work i'm just changing   my workload yeah that's great good stuff well  man i'm really happy to be talking about this so   uh well not you're the bad situation but the good  part of it of course but uh perfect wait um let's   go ahead and let's move on to this week's five  lucky winners now chris actually brought you guys   some presents here you're going to be getting so  chris you want to take a few minutes and tell us   about oh yeah so we got a couple new designs  here um the grand prize winner here for says   and gets something very special this is our very  awesome very big this is our warlock sticker has   all the different lock picks and keys nothing on  it so this will go under your uh your pen kit so   this thing right here one of you guys will be  taking this home it's it's the size of a hand   pretty much it's a big boy it's a very big  one we also got some really cool super new   these are our little super locksmith guys that  may look familiar to some of you people some of   you may not know what that is but also last but  not least we also got some of our it might be   hard to see the lighting this is our safe cracking  sticker it's kind of hard to see that with the uh   the camera there but you can also see all these  online lockdown fg.com we are super stoked to   have these products out here there's something  unique and special to the locksmith industry i   think we've been waiting for something really cool  to come along for a long time so we're very proud   of them our team is super stoked to have these  out that's very cool so yeah guys hey make sure   you guys check chris out support him um he has  some great stuff coming out he's doing good work   with it and they're really cool designs man i like  that super this is my old guy yeah man that's cool   that is real yeah a couple more goodies  in the pipeline you know and it's uh   you gotta wait for shipping sometimes some of the  stuff comes across the country across the world   and you have to kind of wait for it absolutely  yeah yeah that goes yep i sure do all right well   good stuff everybody so um all the lucky winners  are gonna be receiving some of this a sticker as   well so how cool is that all right let's go ahead  and get into it all right let's first go over the   rules make sure we're all on the same page here  so what to do if you win you want to email us   your shipping info to sales clksupplies.com or  call us at 800-848-6989 and we'll send your gifts  

soon how to win comment on our videos and include  the hashtag lockboss winners will be chosen from   the previous week's videos it's that simple no  purchase necessary but we do thank all of you who   support us no print is necessary yep no none nice  none up okay here let's do it i was like is there   another slide there what are we doing all right  here we go so this week's winner is number one robert freer robert congratulations  here we go winner number two   is kenneth johnson congratulations  winner number three g lock access if i'm saying that right you think  that's probably right or block access i think   you didn't order it's pretty good okay yeah fair  enough good stuff all right winner number four is ej walsh ej congratulations and last but  not least winner number five this week is timothy kimberling ii so timothy  congratulations now of course   this month we got our a lock boss premier uh  polo going on free for any order over 432.10 so there you have it hey i do see your  comment nate um go ahead and contact us   at sales clksupplies.com and we can make sure  we have everything uh figured out for you or   worst case or best case we'll give you a tracking  number um we'll make sure we get that figured out   for you no problem at all well everybody thank  you for coming hanging out chris thanks for   telling your story always a pleasure glad you're  doing good and um everybody you all have a great   tuesday evening and we'll see you same  place same time next week y'all take care

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